Sentences with phrase «against government»

> On Comment today, Richard Harrington MP explains why he will be rebelling against the Government on Lords reform.

The PDP urged the National Assembly to commence appropriate constitutional legislative actions against the government for unilaterally approving the release of the fund without allowing application of legislative instrument.

In a response published on all the electronic and print media entitled «I have nothing personal against the Government or the President» I answered each of the allegations, showing the role I played in John Mahama's nomination as Vice Presidential candidate and stated that: «Being my true self I disagree and I have disagreed with the NDC Government on matters of constitutional principles, beliefs, values and policy issues but never on personal matters.

Supporters also argue that electoral systems using proportional representation (PR) often enable smaller parties to become decisive in Parliament, thus gaining a power of leverage against the Government.

Of the six Tory rebels, most have quite a lot of «form» when it comes to walking through the lobbies against the Government line:

Greater privacy protections against government intrusion, including electronic surveillance.

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

Tea Party candidate Carl Paladino, running for governor of New York, has railed against government spending.

Tony McNulty, the local MP, struggled to keep a straight face as he denied that Britain's struggling working class have a legitimate grievance against the Government and defended multi-culturalism.

No one stood giving those who wanted to the opportunity to vote for or against the Government that governs and taxes them.

The Chamber is against government mandates that require private sector businesses and non-profits to provide paid sick leave.

The Conservatives» poor performance in the General Election raises the prospect that the pendulum of power may have swung towards Parliament and against the government.

The millionaire Buffalo businessman, who last week became his party's candidate for governor, has shaped much of his Tea Party message by railing against government spending and vowing Draconian bureaucratic bloodletting.

David Cameron on Tuesday night personally challenged the leader of the Tory rebels who launched a highly effective operation against House of Lords reform, involving unofficial whips, which produced the largest rebellion against the government of this parliament.

Of the two Tory abstainers, as a PPS until yesterday, Lee Scott, has no history of rebellion; meanwhile, Tracey Crouch, who also abstained, has still never actively voted in a division lobby against the government line.

The Citi Breakfast Show focused on Dr. Josiah Ayeh's thievery accusation against government.

David Cameron has been delaying the next stage of the debate on the immigration bill for weeks, because he knew that the report stage debate would see dozens of Tory MPs trying to vote against the government and in favour of a much tougher stance on immigration.

The chief whip in the Lords asked Lord Heseltine to stand down because he voted against the government's official position, it said, adding: «The government would like to warmly thank Lord Heseltine for his service.»

«Since December 2, 2017, workers across the six Oyo State tertiary institutions have embarked on indefinite strike to protest against the government refusal to pay them their 15 month salary arrears.

Take it as read each of the candidates will campaign against the government's crazy police cuts which will see up to 16,000 officers, a similar number of back office roles and 1,800 PCSOs face the chop.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

During the last Parliament, I voted against our government when it introduced legislation to cut the deficit in half by 2010.

Under the Salisbury Convention, the Lords should not wreck or vote against government manifesto commitments at second and third reading.

But I won't support the idea of taking up arms against the government because what is going on did not start today or with President Buhari.

It's probably more a case of a desire to be led from the front, for him to deploy against the Government the ruthlessness he showed by denying Ed Balls the shadow Chancellor's post and ousting Nick Brown as Labour's chief whip.

She says she wants to combat child poverty, has pledged to campaign against government plans to limit future child tax credit to two children and to bring about a childcare and digital «revolution».

In an article in the Evening Standard defending her decision to vote against the government last night, the Conservative former education secretary Nicky Morgan says the government should drop the amendment to the EU withdrawal bill fixing 29 March 2019 as Brexit day before it gets debated next week.

On 21st December, 1993 the New Patriotic Party (NPP) instituted an action at the Supreme Court against the Government of Ghana per the Attorney — General for the following reliefs:

But former director of public prosecutions Sir Ken MacDonald has spoken out against the government's plans, despite supporting the use of communications data evidence.

Police chiefs see the row over the riots as a good opportunity to fight back against government plans to cut the police budget.

Or so we thought: court proceedings have been launched as the bearded one continues his fight against the government.

In comments released before the weekly meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday evening, Corbyn insisted it was now time for Labour MPs to work together against the Government.

Some Tory MPs who had not previously been expected to rebel against the government seemed to express hesitation, or even anger, at the direction of travel.

``... I believe that he [Dr Bawumia] is actually the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party,» Mrs Bawa Mogtari told Prince Minkah on Class91.3 FM on the Executive Breakfast Show on Tuesday 20 September while responding to some issues and accusations levelled against the government by Mr Boakye Agyarko, Policy Advisor to the opposition party's flag bearer at a press conference the party organised on Monday 19 September.

Anaylysts believe the government had deliberately gone for the jugular against Ogunlana to shame him over his hard stance against the government over the land use charge issue.

Mr Johnson is not the only figure on the left preparing for a staunch campaign against the government's cuts.

The businesswoman, who won a Brexit legal challenge against the government, recently revealed that she has been receiving threats of acid attacks for months and is afraid to leave her home.

Ian Liddell - Grainger reaffirms his committee's determination to fight on against the government's Equitable Life policy.

The best estimates are that there will only be a handful of Conservative MPs willing to vote against the government's position while there will be significantly more Labour MPs willing to defy Jeremy Corbyn's position and vote for action in Syria.

Over 2,000 medical workers are descending on Westminster later to protest against the government's NHS reforms.

There's a certain irony to the fact that some of the thirty or so Labour MPs prepared to vote against the government won't do so simply because Labour is so unpopular.

There are no independent trade unions in Cuba and Cuban citizen are often fired from their employment simply for declaring themselves to be against the government.

Mr Clegg's appointment comes days after Tory leader David Cameron reached out to the liberal party to form a «progressive alliance» against government policy.

The Wednesday night filing of the more than 2,200 - page measure was the starting pistol that sent lawmakers into a mad dash against the government funding clock.

I have no grievance against this government or the war against corruption.

the first amendment was establish against the government's infringing on the citizen's rights to speech.

The prospect of a Lords rebellion against the government's emergency surveillance law grew today, after an influential committee of peers raised concerns about the legislation.

Scores of Ghanaians in New York, the United States of America on Thursday demonstrated against the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa...

Meanwhile news emerged that business secretary Mr Cable had encouraged colleges to launch a legal challenge against the government's immigration policy.

The latest disruption was in response to news that over 100 children have died over the weekend in northern Sri Lanka, where the separatist rebel Tamil Tigers are fighting a last stand against government forces.